FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 08, 2017

Highlighting Our Nation’s Veterans

The Wealth of Veterans Report

NOV. 8, 2017 — The U.S. Census Bureau has released a new report “The Wealth of Veterans” that uses data from the 2014 Survey of Income and Program Participation to look at how military service may influence the lifelong financial well-being of veterans. The report describes differences in the components of wealth between male veteran householders and nonveteran householders 25 years and older.

This new Statistics in Schools warm-up activity guides students through an exercise of identifying states and territories with the largest and smallest percentages of veteran populations. Students are asked to analyze data on a map to find possible trends and to answer other relative questions.